Volume 3, Issue 11 - June 21 1998

"The defendant Grady Ward will move on July 17, 1998 for an Order to Show
Cause re Civil and Criminal Contempt with respect to plaintiff Warren
McShane and counsel Helena Kobrin. The plaintiff and counsel for plaintiff
disobeyed a direct and unambiguous order from the bench issued August 2,
1996 directing that 'To the extent this has not already occurred, Initial
Disclosures should be fully made.' The plaintiff then both failed to
supplement its earlier incomplete Initial Disclosures, assured the
defendant and the court that it had fully made them, and actively
falsified answers to Interrogatories, Document Requests, and Depositions
answers in order to conceal data and witnesses it knew it ought to have
disclosed."

Grady is in the process of settling his case with Scientology. Judge Whyte
summarized the agreement in a hearing transcript posted this week.

"There will be a judgment entered in favor of the plaintiff in the amount
of $3 million. It will be stipulated that that judgment is not
dischargeable in bankruptcy. In addition there will be an agreement by the
plaintiff that the $3 million judgment will not be collected except as
follows: First, Mr. Ward agrees that he will pay the sum of $10,000
forthwith upon receipt of an advance he is due to receive with respect to
a book from a Mr. Minton and that will be set out in more detail in the
written agreement.

"Second, that Mr. Ward additionally would agree that he will pay the sum
of $200 a month on account of the judgment commencing -- shall we say the
1st of July? Does that work? And that obligation shall continue so long
as Mr. Ward shall live but shall not survive his death and shall not be
chargeable to his estate or to his heirs. In the event of any of the
following the agreement not to collect the judgment would no longer be of
any force and effect: First, if Mr. Ward fails to pay any installment such
that he becomes more than thirty days in arrears. Second, that it is
found by the Court that Mr. Ward has violated any term of the permanent
injunction to which the Court will refer in a moment. Third, if any of the
following torts are proved and reduced to judgment by plaintiff against
the defendant, Mr. Ward: Copyright infringement, trademark infringement,
theft of trade secrets or defamation against the defendant -- the
plaintiff in this case, the Religious Technology Center, or any Church of
Scientology entity.

"It is further agreed that the plaintiff would have the right to review
prepublication the book upon which Mr. Ward is presently engaged, but the
right to review shall not include the right to approve or consent to
anything. It's simply a right of review prior to the publication of the
book. It's further agreed that if there is a net profit received by Mr.
Ward from sales of the book that those profits would be paid over to the
plaintiff."

The agreement may hinge on Scientology notifying Grady of the works that
he could potentially infringe on to violate the agreement. From a letter
from Grady Ward to Helena Kobrin:

"In your letter you disclose that you do not intend to honor my material
requirement that I be given fair notice of potentially infringing works
owned by scientology enterprises. Your suggestion that such works include,
for example, works 'which address Scientology, its religious precepts or
practices' or works which 'appear to have been published, created or
owned, or appear to be based upon a Work created by any Church of
Scientology organization.' Besides being unacceptably vague, these
descriptions potentially include all books by third parties, all Usenet
posts that discuss Scientology and in general any work at all concerning
your enterprise. Obviously this is unacceptably broad and would unfairly
chill my first amendment right to fairly and lawfully criticize and
comment upon scientology."

And from a letter to Judge Fogel:

"I think it has become abundantly clear that the plaintiff is now using
the settlement process not as a means by which we can finally achieve a
lasting peace, but as a means of further enforcing its will to use any
settlement as a sword rather than as a shield. I urge you to consider
whether it is the wisest course to continue to spend judicial resources in
attempting to finalize a settlement when the parties have provably not
achieved a full meeting of the minds on all material elements. At this
point, I would urge the court to abandon efforts to force the incomplete
oral recitations of May 12, 1998 into a complete, binding and livable
agreement and to inform Judge Whyte that settlement negotiations have not
been finalized and that the underlying litigation should go forward to
trial."

Keith Henson posted his opposition to Scientology's request for attorneys
fees in his copyright infringement case.

"THE DECLARATION OF HELENA K. KOBRIN DATED JUNE 5, 1998. Paragraph 6
states that certain entries in the exhibits have been redacted 'for time
spent on entirely different matters, not related to this case, and for any
entries related to this case which reflect attorney-client privilege or
attorney work product.' Defendant is entitled to a full description of
each service performed regardless of the stated reasons for the
redactions. For example, it is totally impossible from Exhibit B to
determine what services are being provided for most of the amounts
claimed.

"The October 28, 1996 statement refers to drafting expert declarations and
telephone conversations with experts and reviewing expert reports but no
identification is made of the experts, no expert declarations have been
provided and no expert reports have been provided. Moreover, the February
26, 1998 fee statement, page 2, indicates various time charges in
connection with Mr. Henson's bankruptcy filing. These charges are
entirely unrelated to any proper claim as a result of the verdict and
judgment herein.

"The May 1, 1996 Lieberman invoice is objectionable for the following
reasons: significant portions are redacted, thus it is impossible to
determine their propriety or reasonableness. Mr. Lieberman charges for
travel as Eureka, California in the amount of $2,616.00 without indicating
why he went to Eureka or the level of air fare which appears to be at the
very least, first class air travel. On 04/10/86, Mr. Lieberman charges for
a hearing and other matters in Los Angeles in a case which has at all
times been venued in San Jose. He then charges 13 hours for traveling from
Los Angeles to San Jose and having some meetings. On April 26, 1996, Mr.
Lieberman's associate, Lawrence Helfer, charges time for reviewing a
letter by Ms. Kobrin to a European attorney which would appear to have
nothing to do with this litigation.

"Exhibit E is a billing by Earl Cooley, Esq. of Boston, Massachusetts.
Virtually all of the invoice is redacted and it is thus impossible to
ascertain the reasonableness and propriety of the time charges. Mr.
Cooley's March 3, 1998 invoice indicates, under February 4, an entry
regarding 'San Jose cases' meaning more than just the Henson case and
another entry re [redacted] Henson cases (in the plural) and a time entry
of 6.5 hours for flying from San Jose to Boston, and 13 hours for February
4, when he flew from Boston to San Jose. Similarly, almost the entirety of
that invoice is redacted.

"Paragraph 8 of Mr. Rosen's declaration dated June 3, 1998 sets forth
various billing rates for 15 different attorneys from his law firm who
apparently worked on this 'simply copyright' case. Eleven of those lawyers
bill at rates in excess of $210.00 an hour, six of those lawyers bill at
hourly rates in excess of $300.00, and two of those lawyers bill at rates
in excess of $400.00 per hour. Indeed, Mr. Rosen bills at the rate of
$460.00 per hour and Roger M. Milgrim bills at the rate of $520.00 per
hour. There is absolutely no showing as to why all of these attorneys at
such high billing rates are necessary, for the greatest part of this
matter, to contend with a pro per litigant."

Keith also reported a bizarre episode in a meeting held with Scientology's
lawyers.

"At a judgment debtor examination on June 18, 1998, in the offices of
Thomas R. Hogan, I was unrepresented, and plaintiff was represented by Mr.
Rosen, Mrs. Kobrin, and an unknown paralegal assistant. During the
examination, plaintiff presented defendant a number of Usenet postings to
identify, though defendant was at a loss to imagine what relevance these
had to his financial condition and believes they were presented for a
purpose unrelated to judgment collection.

"Attached to these postings was a single sheet of paper which contained
instructions to the plaintiff's lawyers regarding the purpose of the
examination as seen by RTC/Scientology. Helena Kobrin was extremely upset
at defendant's seeing this document and (with her paralegal assistant)
came around the table and physically attacked defendant and ripped the
paper into pieces as defendant was reading the document which--after being
admitted as an exhibit by the court reporter--Mrs. Kobrin now claimed was
'privileged.'

"From the limited view defendant had of this document, defendant believes
the document contains detailed instructions from the highest level of
Scientology (David Miscavige) about ways to 'fair game' or otherwise
punish defendant through abuses of the judgment collection process."

"I went by the police station and filed a criminal complaint against
Helena Kobrin and Alan Cartwright, #98-170-9717, incident type 240//242.
The only way my report would turn into action would be for the DA who
looks the case over to have seen Dateline."

NBC's news program Dateline aired a story this week on Bob Minton, a
critic of Scientology who is funding a variety of cases and opponents of
the cult. From a transcript of the show:

"BOB MINTON: The more I got involved, the more frightening the
organization as a whole became to me.

"JOHN HOCKENBERRY: Are you nuts?

"BOB MINTON: A lot of people would question my insanity on that score.

"HOCKENBERRY: Do you have any evidence that they're really evil and
destructive?

"BOB MINTON: Yes. Shattered lives, broken families, mental fragility.

"VO: Minton has funded lawsuits, rescued an anti-cult organization, given
weary defendants and broken-down activists the means to fight on. To date,
he's handed out more than 1.7 million of his own dollars to some of
Scientology's harshest critics

"HOCKENBERRY: That's a lot of money.

"BOB MINTON: It is. But keep in mind that in this, in this battle with
Scientology, I'm the little guy. Scientology are the big guys.

"VO: Vaughn Young and his wife, Stacy, left the church in 1989, embittered
by their experience and determined to start a new life. They rented a
house in Seattle and opened a sanctuary for abandoned cats and dogs. But a
few years later, the Youngs decided to go public, criticizing the church
as a dangerous cult. And they provoked what they say was an all out
assault by the church to destroy their lives.

"STACY YOUNG: They will find your vulnerability and, and use that to try
to silence you.

"VO: In the summer of 1994, a newsletter showed up around the Youngs'
neighborhood, accusing them of things like extortion and promiscuity.
Over the next three years, they learned that private investigators were
asking suspicious questions of their friends and neighbors and accusing
the Youngs of harboring diseased cats.

"STACY YOUNG: We were about a week and a half away from having to move. We
were in a state of catastrophe.

"VAUGHN YOUNG: He just said, he says, 'My name is Bob Minton, I read what
was happening with your animal sanctuary. And I just want to know if
there's some way that I could help you out.'

"VO: Out of the blue, this Bob Minton, this voice on the phone, came into
their lives. He bought the Youngs a new house where they could legally
keep their animals for $250,000. Incredibly, he saved the animal shelter.
Stacy says she'll never forget the day she picked up her new key.

"STACY YOUNG: We came to the house, we opened the front door and Bob
Minton had a huge bouquet of flowers on the table for us. It was
incredible. It was real! It really was real! And we'd never met this guy!
And he just said, 'Welcome to your new house. Congratulations.'

"RINDER: I don't know what motivates this guy, I don't know what. But on
the other hand if you asked me, do I know what motivated Timothy McVeigh
to go blow up a building because his view is that the people sitting
inside that building are violating the rights of citizens of the United
States, I don't know why he does that. I, I don't know that you could--

"RINDER: No, motivation. Like, what is it that motivates someone to, to do
that? I don't know. I don't know how you tell someone does that before
they do it.

"HOCKENBERRY: All right, but you very deliberately compared Bob Minton to
Timothy McVeigh.

"RINDER: All right.

"HOCKENBERRY: What would it take for you to walk away from this battle?

"BOB MINTON: The Church of Scientology would have to make some serious
reforms.

"RINDER: Well, it's all sort of an arrogant view to think that because he
has a lot of money to give to people that he is going to somehow get us to
change our religion. We're not.

"BOB MINTON: There have been emotional times that one really has to
question how many punches you wish to take.

"HOCKENBERRY: Can you take a lot more punches?

"BOB MINTON: I think so. You know, I am setting an example to show people
that this organization is not invulnerable to being criticized. That they
cannot destroy everybody, all the time, who is willing to stand up to
them."

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Picket Summary

Picket reports this week, first from Ted Mayett in Las Vegas:

"Little org, 3:50-4:20pm, vehicles 9. It was going to be a 15 minute
picket but it has been so long since there was such a large audience there
I went for 30 minutes. No Police action at all, in fact they never did
dial them. They had closed the curtains quickly, about 3:54, but still my
Price picket sign made it into the courseroom again.

From "Jour" in San Francisco:

"We had lovely weather for surf picketing weather today (hold on to your
sign and let the wind propel you along the sidewalk). Today I resolved
that with my BRAND-NEW sign - a piece of 20' x 30' foamboard with plastic
pockets on each side. The big side said IS $CIENTOLOGY BREAKING THE LAW?;
www.xenu.net; ALLEGATIONS INCLUDE FALSE IMPRISONMENT * FRAUD * EXTORTION *
ASSAULT * PRACTICING MEDICINE WITHOUT A LICENSE. The other side said DID
$CIENTOLOGY STANDARD TECH KILL LISA MCPHERSON? ASK $CIENTOLOGY ABOUT THE
INTROSPECTION RUNDOWN and WHY DOES $CIENTOLOGY LIE ABOUT THEIR FOUNDER?

"When I arrived, Our Lady of the Stress Test Table was setting up the
table - two chairs on each side and a big pile of books. I wished her a
good afternoon. One gentleman arrived at the org shortly after Tani got
there - so I called over to him, 'Are you Jeff Quiros?' 'Yes, I am. Who
are you?' I introduced myself as Jour, and he said he'd been wanting to
meet me. He said he'd read some of my web site and some of my a.r.s.
posts, and he wanted to know who I was working for. I said nobody, and he
said he found that hard to believe, and I asked him, when he'd done
altruistic things in his life, if he'd been paid to do them. I explained
that I thought it was important to make time for things that are
important, and mentioned that I'd volunteered for other activist
activities in my life. He still seemed rather skeptical, but he did back
off some on that line of questioning. He spent the rest of the picket
walking with me and asking me questions. He did the usual 'how can you
believe these reports if you weren't there' thing, and I gave the 'I
wasn't alive during the Holocaust but I believe it happened' response."

From Jim Wissick in San Jose:

"Picket at 80 Rosemary from 9:30 -10:30. Left to picket the Winchester org
from 10:45 till 12:30. Lots and Lots of public support at the Winchester
org. Lotsa fliers, Lotsa honking, etc. Also had two clam supporters drive
by; one was screaming obscenities, the other just yelled 'Do you research
before you lie like that' or something to that effect."

From Bruce Pettycrew in Mesa, Arizona:

"We picketed from 8:45 to 9:45 this AM. Still needed sun screen and water,
but the advantage is: since the street in front of the mi$$ion runs E/W,
you can position the picket sign for shade on the East leg. I do not know
if it was the Dateline show, but the percentage of drivers giving us the
'thumbs-up' signal is increasing.

"At the start of the picket, there were no cars in the lot. From about
8:50 to 9:05, 10 cars showed up, so ALL of them had to see the protest.
Once again a member came out to ask us to leave. My answer today and from
now on, is to ask that person to leave the Co$ and start a real life. Just
asking."

Birgitta Dagnell reported that the NOTS levels will continue to be
available to the public through the Swedish Parliament, in accordance with
their constitution.

"Radio news at noon today 18 June 1998. The Swedish Supreme
Administrative Court made the final ruling this morning that the 'secret
Bible' of Scientology will remain a public document in Sweden. In the
ruling it was said that people have to pay large fees to read the document
and that the U.S. has put strong pressure on Sweden to keep it sealed.
The court ruled that it is more important to safeguard the principles of
the Swedish Constitutional Law of Public Access to Official Records than
to submit to pressures from foreign political powers. The decision can not
be appealed."

From Swedish TV4:

"'We are shocked. We are going to do everything to force this on - even to
the Europe Parliament if needed', says Tarja Vulto, the information
secretary at the Church of Scientology in Stockholm. She thinks that the
Swedish Supreme Administrative Court only has considered the technical
views and has not taken into consideration the international agreements
and the copyright. Vulto points out that the Government as well as the
Parliament has carefully studied the subject and reached a different
judgments. 'This is religious material which means a lot to us. No one
else should have access to it. The Scientologists are going to do whatever
is in their power to protect it', she says."

News from the UK that Scientology has dropped its suit against Richard and
Bonnie Woods.

"Following an application for discovery of the OT and other advanced
materials, the Church of Scientology has discontinued its claims against
Richard and Bonnie Woods. The Judge had indicated that he would order
that advanced materials held by COSRECI to be disclosed. To avoid the
consequences of any such order, that Church of Scientology applied for
leave to discontinue its claims in two actions. The Judge granted leave
subject to conditions.

"As a condition of being allowed to discontinue, COSRECI has given
undertakings to the Court that it will not sue Richard and Bonnie again in
respect of any future publication of the materials complained of in the
discontinued claims. Richard and Bonnie Woods can now speak about the
true nature of the OT levels.

"The history of the case is that Bonnie and Richard Woods made a claim
against Scientology when an allegedly defamatory leaflet was posted
through neighbours doors. Scientology then counter claimed several times.
In October Bonnie and Richard Woods appear in court as they are litigating
against the Church of Scientology and it is probable that they will win
this case, estimated damages are in the range £10,000 to £70,000."

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Collingswood Mission

Charlotte Kates reported that Scientology's mission in Collingswood, New
Jersey has closed.

"The mission has moved several times, from its original location in
Collingswood, NJ, to the neighboring towns Oaklyn, Marlton, and finally,
Audubon. The mission holders were an elderly couple, and I have heard that
the wife died at the beginning of this year. I also heard that several
publics from the Philadelphia Org were interested in the mission, but none
of that interest seemed to come to any conclusion with no new mission
holders. The mission was a small place in the business district of a
small town, resembling a brown former rowhouse. A small sign reading
'Scientology and Dianetics' was posted by the door, and the front
window--which looked like it hadn't been dusted or redecorated in
years--was decorated with gold foil paper and Dianetics posters. It was
always an old-looking and unwelcoming place, and was open only on Tuesday,
Thursday, and Friday nights."

Message-ID: 1998061721202900.RAA27156@ladder01.news.aol.com

FBI

Recently declassified FBI documents posted this week included this letter
from Norman Starkey, attempting damage control following the death of
Susan Meister aboard the Apollo.

"We feel that the enclosed reports are most vital to your Committee in
that these reports involve officials of the United States Government:
Using the name of the President of the United States in connection with
criminal actions involving destruction and the threat of destruction of
foreign vessels. Threatening the destruction of this Company's vessel of
Panamanian registry. Threatening to murder the vessel's company of 380
men, women and children, many of whom are Americans. Using the name of
the Central Intelligence Agency to threaten such death and destruction.
Plainly demonstrating that the State Department and CIA act on false
information.

"We became involved with the American Consul in Casablanca due to the
tragic suicide of a 23 year old American named Susan Meister, who had been
aboard our vessel for a scant four months. Miss Meister was herself
formerly addicted to drugs and was well acquainted with the drug
sub-culture in America. Unfortunately, her suicidal tendencies were
unknown to us. All this is given in strictest confidence merely to explain
how it came about that we were visited by Mr. Galbraith_Vice-consul in
Casablanca. Mr. Galbraith showed little concern in this matter except to
state continuously that he wanted no publicity. Our Company has had to
handle the advisement of Miss Meister's death to her family, has had to
push to try to obtain official documents which could be sent to her
family, has had to send Miss Meister's belongings to her family and are
currently trying to arrange for her remains to be sent to America for
burial at our Company's expense.

"All Mr. Galbraith has done is to threaten our death and destruction
should we cause him any more trouble, as if the suicide of Miss Meister
was something which we had ourselves caused just to make trouble for him,
his senior and the U.S. Government. Further, Mr. Galbraith has made all
manner of accusations about our activities. In fact Mr. Galbraith has
conducted himself criminally in this whole matter, as the enclosed
document reveals."

Westfalische Nachrichten reported that Scientology has gone underground in
Muenster, reducing their visibility but continuing their operations in
that city.

"At first glance it seems that the controversial Scientology organization
has taken its leave of Muenster. The so-called mission on Bernhard-Ernst
Strasse no longer exists. Leaflets which offer Dianetics courses are hard
to come by. Public events given by Scientologists in Muenster have become
a thing of the past. According to the information of the Exit members,
the Scientologists have changed their tactics. They now use sales
training, communications courses or seminars for personality development
groups as cover organizations. The word 'Scientology' does not appear at
all.

"Despite the public discussion about the dangerousness of Scientology, the
organization apparently continues to win people over. The reason for that,
is that the Scientologists pursue goals which are held in high regard by
our society: professional success, achievement, material wealth. In the
event a person wants to terminate his association, he stands to suffer
both psychological and financial consequences.

"All the same, the group cannot stop Scientology from hurting people. This
was the case with a resident of Muenster who was used by the [Scientology]
organization for years and then, when he was no longer up to the strain
[placed on him by the sect], was left to fend for himself. He is now
undergoing treatment in a psychiatric ward."